@cicada: "_On Setting A Bad Precedent With Friends_
I threw myself into the coolness of open air, hitting brick and
scrabbling to haul myself up and over. Winded, hurt, I lay on the roof
as heavy feet landed beside me. He knelt, holding raw terror in his
hands. "Please, no!" I begged. "Don't make me read your manuscript!"
-Suzanne"
    @gruffstar_remove: "<quote>
Okay that one wins the prize for making me laugh out loud first thing in 
the morning before I'd even finished my first coffee.
Gruff
<url>           - Gruff's box of Gruffiti
<url> - Language learning in little bites"
    @cylise: "On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:33:32 +0100, Gruff
<quote>
Gotta love it.  And I don't even have people asking me to read any of
their stuff.  
r.bc: vixen 
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc.. 
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really. 
<url>"
    @cicada: "<quote>
oooh, be grateful! very, very grateful!
admittedly, some of the stuff I've been asked to read for people lately
hasn't been too bad, but some of it has sucked the farm right down to
the very last piglet, IYKWIM.
-Suzanne"
    @gerryq: "says...
<quote>
I suppose the answer is to point them at Critters etc. on the basis 
that you can only get an objective view from people who don't know you!
Nice cinquenta.
- Gerry Quinn"
    @noreplies: "On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:44:09 -0400, "S. Palmer" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
A little too true to be funny, but great!"
    @marilee: "On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:44:09 -0400, "S. Palmer" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
LOLOL
Marilee J. Layman
<url>"
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